Old News (from eNews)

Saturday, March 06, 1999, at 11:10AM

By Eric Richardson

I guess that should have been snippet... I really should write a modify function for this thing...

Anyway, life goes on. RealNetworks released RealProducer for Linux, and it looks fairly cool, but still no G2 player (although the libs from RealProducer fixed the problem with RealAudio and kernel 2.2).

If anyone out there hasn't seen Strange Brew (I'm finding this is a rather common void in modern culture), drop whatever you're doing and run to your local video store to rent it. It's got to be THE funniest movie I've ever seen. Second is probably Robin Hood: Men in Tights, but his surpasses even that. Heh. I'm laughing just thinking about it...

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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